Threads anyone?

We had a long week end around here, zero work, zero Nagios alarms, zero problems with any server anywhere.
So, given the effing sh*t my country is running into once again, I decided to watch -once again- 'Threads'.
Bad, bad, choice, matte.

This should be, I guess, the fifth time I see the film in my life, this time on DVD (don't ask how I got it on DVD, but I should say that I'm really grateful to a certain IchiKiller)

The movie is tough, no matter how many times you see it (specially since it has no subs, not even English, and its spoken in British English), but also, to me it is rather easy to compare the pre war situation to all the f*cked up things we are having a ball with in Argentina right now.

Of course, we are not going to start a nuclear war anytime soon, but, if we keep f*cking stuff like we do, will be back to steam power and hand crops in a jiffy.

Nuclear apocalypse films from the 80's

Here is a top 3 list of my favorite nuclear war films from the 1980s, I think that the first two did more for the peace movement than all the Hippie & Flower Power combined, at least for my generation.
Of course, there was also The Day After, but personally I always thought it was kinda goofy, specially compared to "Threads".
The third one it is a comedy, but I have fond memories of it, so I have added it.

Threads
Testament
Miracle Mile

DISCLAIMER:
Do not watch the first 2 on a Sunday afternoon.

Birthday wish list, more like "research"

My birthday is close, so I have been web window shopping for my present.
I have been looking for a long time for a book, not a sci-fi one, that would deal with the repercussions on humans after a nuclear war, sort of like Threads so "wonderfully" did (extra link 1 extra link 2)

I read (lost it on a moving, I guess) A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race and I have The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War, but both of them are pretty much centered around the climatic, the weather changes on the subject.
Whilst the subject it is really interesting (I b*tch a lot about the regular weather...), I would like to read something that is primarily aimed towards what would happen to society, or whatever remains that resembles it.

Found these two, but I don't know what to expect.

The Long Darkness: Psychological and Moral Perspectives on Nuclear Winter

Nuclear Winter: The Human and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War

Movies & Movies & More Movies

• Interstellar

Madonna, what a piece of crap!
Boring, loong, pretentious and stupid... Just like practically every other Nolan movie (except "Memento") :P

• The Imitation Game

It was entertaining, sort of a companion to "Codebreaker".
The writer certainly doesn't waste a minute trying to explain

• The Fountainhead

Oh boy! Does this movie have an overacted female lead or what? :D

• Touching The Void

Pretty, pretty awesome, "127 Hours" on steroids.
Don't fuck mess with The Andes! ;)

• How I Live Now

Strange, a post apocalyptic teenage movie... Set on the English countryside.
It certainly isn't like "Threads".

Re-enforcing The Back-plate of The Dell XPS M1330

The keyboard on this lappie was a bit flaky, more like with flexing, with a lot of flexing... Specially around the upper left area, really annoying when you hit the Esc key.
So, what I did to add a little bit if stiff was pop it open and add a couple of threads of a somehow thick tape I had around.
The thing added a less than a milliliter thickness (or more like firmness) but it helped a lot.